Tag: 2000

Director: Jeong-kwon Kim
Stars: Ji-Tae Yoo, Ha-neul Kim, Ji-Won Ha
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea

Two students, separated in time, are somehow able to talk to each other using amateur radio, one in 1979 and the other in 2000.

Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Stars: Jung-jae Lee, Ji-Hyun Jun, Mu-saeng Kim
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea

In 1999, a voice actor moves from Il Mare, a seaside house, and she leaves a Xmas card in its (magical) mailbox. He, an architect student, receives it in 1997, and so begins a friendship separated by 2 years.

Director: Fatih Akin
Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany

A young, insecure teacher embarks on a journey through Europe to Turkey, where he wants to see a woman again whom he believes to be his fate.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany | France | Italy

A family falls into poverty during the Depression.

Director: Pat Murphy
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Andrew Scott
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland | UK | Italy | Germany

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he’s convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at ‘the writin’ game’ to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he’s gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim’s green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?

Director: Per Fly
Stars: Jesper Christensen, Marius Sonne Janischefska, Stine Holm Joensen
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden

Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj’s life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to him.

Director: Rob Sitch
Stars: Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell, Roz Hammond
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia

In the days before the July 19, 1969 space mission that marked humankind’s first steps on the moon, NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Australian sheep farm in the boondocks town of Parkes was just one of the reasons that NASA was concerned. Based on a true story, The Dish takes a smart, witty, comical look at the differing cultural attitudes between Australia and the U.S. while revisiting one of the greatest events in history.

Director: Achero Mañas
Stars: Juan José Ballesta, Pablo Galán, Alberto Jiménez
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

El Bola, a 12 year old boy a.k.a. “Pellet” is a 12 year old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates, and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola’s life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate.

Director: Norio Tsuruta
Stars: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Asô
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan

In this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest…

Director: Mike Figgis
Stars: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgård, Salma Hayek
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner’s dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.

Director: Mark Borchardt
Stars: Mark Borchardt, Tom Schimmels, Miriam Frost
Genre: Short, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

An alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which turns out to be demonic.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | Italy | Switzerland

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

Director: Paul Cox
Stars: Julia Blake, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia | Belgium

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair. However, this time around, there are more complications, including the possibilities of ill health and death, as well as the impact their relationship might have on John.

Director: Hilary Birmingham
Stars: Glenn Fitzgerald, Anson Mount, Bob Burrus
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Mongryong marries the beautiful Chunhyang without telling his father, the Governor of Namwon. When his father is transferred to Seoul, Mongryong has to leave Chunhyang and finish his exams. Chunhyang, being the daughter of a courtesan, is also legally a courtesan. She is beaten and imprisoned when she refuses to obey the new Governor Byun, as she wishes to be faithful to her husband. After three years, Mongryong passes his exam and becomes an emissary to the King. He returns to Namwon, disguised as a beggar, just before Chunhyang is to be flogged to death at the governor’s birthday celebration.

Director: Hilary Birmingham
Stars: Glenn Fitzgerald, Anson Mount, Bob Burrus
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Tully Coates, Jr., with his good looks and chiseled body, is the local heartthrob, and while he has a new girlfriend virtually every night, he’s incapable of getting close to anyone. His younger brother Earl, the shy and sensitive type, frequents the local revival house. The only common bond between these disparate siblings is Ella Smalley, an intelligent and even-tempered young woman who returns to their Nebraska hometown to intern at a local veterinarian’s clinic. Meanwhile, their father, Tully, Sr., a rancher who gets by with the help of his two sons, carries a brooding sadness, a hint of past wounds too long in healing. The family dynamic is changed forever when several secrets surface.

Director: Liv Ullmann
Stars: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden | Italy | Germany | Finland | Norway

An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.

Director: Hans Petter Moland, Tony Spataro
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Sweden | Norway

A mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He’s drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Japan

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna, Dominika Bednarczyk
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet. As the man and his new companion take their daily walks in the village, neighbors are drawn to the odd sight and approach him about riding the camel or using it for any number of purposes. He declines to exploit or capitalize on the friendly animal, and is met with barely veiled hostility. In time, the camel becomes a burden on both the town and the man, who’s edged out of community affairs and lives on shaky ground with his wife.

Director: Shinji Aoyama
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | France

The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

Director: Laís Bodanzky
Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket.

Director: Bob Giraldi
Stars: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

At a popular NYC Italian restaurant on a dramatic, busy evening, there are 2 gangsters, cop detective, food-critic, ex bookmaker owner, his chef son, indebted gambler sous-chef etc.

Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK | France

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Director: George Butler
Stars: Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA | UK | Germany | Sweden

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton ‘s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio interviews with expedition members, and a generous helping of the footage and still photos shot on the expedition.

Director: Fabián Bielinsky
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Graciela Tenenbaum
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the “nine queens”).

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Stars: Marlene Kaminsky
Genre: Short, Animation
Country: UK

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers’ force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? “Sweetheart, come.”

Director: Fruit Chan
Stars: Hailu Qin, Wai-Fan Mak, Xiao Ming Biao
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong | France | China

Hong Kong life from the perspective of a young northern mainland Chinese woman working as a prostitute in Hong Kong.

Director: Stanley Tucci
Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund, and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he’s overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad, and writes a 1942 piece about him, “Professor Seagull”, bringing Gould some celebrity, and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he’s often crashed. Gould’s touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat, lead to a break-up, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould’s death, and Mitchell’s unveiling of the secret.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Aidan Quinn, Jared Harris, Ric Reid
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

In 1976, John Lennon and Paul McCartney have a chat about their lives and discuss whether The Beatles will ever reunite.

Director: Michael Almereyda
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal story about Hamlet’s plight to avenge his father’s murder.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Juliane Koepcke, Juan Zaplana Ramirez
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Country: Germany | UK

Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary “Battle Royale” act.

Director: Alan Zweig
Stars: Alan Zweig, Harvey Pekar, Don McKellar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Alan Zweig investigates the wacky world of record collecting.

Director: F.A. Brabec
Stars: Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales – glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light – make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.

Director: Dan Cohen
Stars: Robert Forster, Donnie Wahlberg, Bess Armstrong
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After 30 years on the road, a veteran jewelry salesman is forced to show his young replacement the tricks of the trade, but when the kid introduces him to the ladies of the “Altoona Riding Club,” the old dog is introduced to a whole new set of “tricks.”

Director: Carlo Carlei
Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Jürgen Prochnow, Lorenza Indovina
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy

The poor Italian peasant boy Francesco already has visions of Jesus and Mary as a child, but the Devil visits him too. He, Francesco, is quite certain that he will become a priest. After entering the Capuchin Order it becomes clear that Padre Pio (his new name) has powers which can not be explained rationally: he heals the sick, knows the names, problems and future of complete strangers.

Director: Myles Connell
Stars: Christopher Walken, Peter McDonald, Anne Pitoniak
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK | USA

A struggling auto mechanic with a criminal past agrees to one last heist to pay off his debts.

Director: Ulf Malmros
Stars: Kjell Bergqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Rebecca Scheja
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden | Denmark

Two kids move in with a lonely undertaker who is secretly in love with the town’s school teacher.

Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Switzerland

Jean Barnery is a young Protestant cleric in Barbazac in 1900 when he divorces his severe wife after falling in love with Pauline, the independent-minded niece of an upper-crust parishioner. Jean’s also an heir to a high-end porcelain factory in Limoges. He gives his fortune to his wife to assuage his guilt over the divorce. He pursues Pauline; they marry and live idyllically in Switzerland. Then, duty calls: his family asks him to come to Limoges to run the business. He accepts, ignoring Pauline’s wishes. His new responsibilities, as well as his fighting in the Great War, change him and his relationship with Pauline.

Director: Jean-Pierre Denis
Stars: Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.

Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.

Director: Hideaki Anno
Stars: Shunji Iwai, Ayako Fujitani, Jun Murakami
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating “Tomorrow is my birthday” everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera

Director: Fernando Trueba
Stars: Michel Camilo, Tito Puente, Arturo O’Farrill
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Spain | France | Italy | Mexico | Belgium

A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.

Director: Bernard Rapp
Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence Thomassin
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France

Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas’ charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.

Director: Adam Simon
Stars: George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Country: USA | UK

An examination into the nature of 1960s-’70s horror films, the artists involved, and how they reflected contemporary society.

Director: Ye Lou
Stars: Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany | China | France

The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty, but also a meeting place for memories and secrets. Lou Ye, who spent his youth on the banks of the Suzhou, shows the river as a Chinese Styx, in which forgotten stories and mysteries come together.

Director: Raymond De Felitta
Stars: Michael Rispoli, Kelly Macdonald, Kathrine Narducci
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A dreamer finds that his wife and friends are binding him to his mediocre existence.

Director: Agnès Jaoui
Stars: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

The lives of 6 people over 35 in Rouen, France, and their relationship to each other.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic | UK | Japan

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a stump in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child.

Director: John Fawcett
Stars: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada

Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.

Director: Josh Aronson
Stars: Jaime Leigh Allen, Jemma Braham, Freeda Cat
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture – and their bonds with each other.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Dina Korzun, Artyom Strelnikov, Paddy Considine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France | Canada

In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.

Director: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Mexico

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

Director: Amos Gitai
Stars: Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Klauzner
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel | France

When the Yom Kippur War breaks out, two Israeli soldiers find themselves unable to locate their unit. Eager to take part in the war effort, they join an airborne medical evacuation unit.

Director: Charles Kiselyak
Stars: Seymour Cassel, Carol Kane, Jon Voight
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Romance
Country: USA

A look at the life, times, and art of independent film pioneer John Cassavetes through interviews with his family, friends, and admirers of his work.

Director: Zhou Sun
Stars: Li Gong, Xin Gao, Jing-ming Shi
Genre: Drama
Country: China

Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces.

Director: Trent Harris
Stars: Groovin’ Gary, Sean Penn, Crispin Glover
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 1979, filmmaker Trent Harris visits the small town of Beaver, Utah to film a talent show. Impressed by a performer called Groovin’ Gary, he recreates Gary’s act in 1981 with Sean Penn and in 1985 with Crispin Glover.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Bradecki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | France

A cynical doctor, who is dying of cancer, would like to know the meaning of his life. He has to fight for it or just get ready for death.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: UK | USA

A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.

Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Eun-ju Lee, Seong-kun Mun, Won-hee Cho
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea

Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.

Director: Jenniphr Goodman
Stars: Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.

Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark | Sweden

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner’s course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

Director: Wen Jiang
Stars: Wen Jiang, Kenya Sawada, Hongbo Jiang
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: China

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant’s home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?

Director: Dominik Moll
Stars: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take a sinister turn.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Switzerland

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire “Mika” Muller and they live in Lausanne with André’s son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK | USA | France | Germany

A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers’ class revolt.

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Belgium | Germany | Haiti

The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Iglika Triffonova
Stars: Phillip Avramov, Ana Papadopulu, Peter Antonov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria | Netherlands | Hungary

Ivan’s best friend, Kamen, is dying in an American hospital. Since he’s denied a visa to the USA and can’t stay by his side in his last moments, he decides to set off for Bulgaria countryside, taking the camera Kamen has given him. After some time, he writes her a very special letter, telling all about the places and characters he meets on his way, witnesses to a time which is bound to be forgotten.

Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Stars: Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young inbred loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby’s parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots. In true bad guy fashion, a traveling salesman appears and truths about the baby’s origin start to unravel. But little did they know it was a trap.

Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
Stars: Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Barbara Rudnik
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria

Ex-detective Brenner wants to keep himself out of trouble but several murder cases and his ex-girlfriend Klara finally get him involved. But making decisions is not one his strengths.

Director: Steven Okazaki
Stars: Tracey Helton, Alice McMunn
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

This documentary follows the lives of a number of heroin addicts in the U.S.A. It shows their heroin life stories.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Djuangjai Hirunsri, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Saisiri Xoomsai
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand | Netherlands

A film crew documents a folk story-exquisite corpse combination by random Thai people; the story is reenacted.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Khanh Le
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam | France | Germany

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.

Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Baltasar Kormákur, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Iceland | Norway | Germany | Sweden | Denmark

Páll is an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to what seems like inevitable doom; at home with his parents who finally can’t cope, and in the mental institution, Kleppur.

Director: Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Evelyn Cox
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

This is a documentary about the musical artists who performed the songs in the Coen Brothers’ film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain | France | Colombia

The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover’s killer in the Medellin slums, but instead encounters Wilmar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Alexis.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuña, María Asquerino
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Spain

The accidental discovery of a big fortune hidden in the apartment of a deceased man will fill the heart of a real estate agent with greed and dreams of a luxurious life, but the neighbours think otherwise.

Director: François Ozon
Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.

Director: Rodrigo García
Stars: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Five California women struggle with personal problems as their own paths unwind in ways unexpected.

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath
Genre: Documentary, History, Romance
Country: UK | Germany | USA

Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.

Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf
Stars: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran

A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran.

Director: Mark Jonathan Harris
Stars: Judi Dench, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: UK | USA

The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.